Who: Thomas Jefferson was the creator -- John Adams, Benjamin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston helped write it. The Continental Congress signed and passed it in 1776.
What: Declaration of Independence, a document listing why they wanted to be independent; tension between Boston and British Troops
Where: Philadelphia, 1774 -- passed in 1776
Why: Great Britain and the King George III had too much power; The idea of freedom intoxicated all of them.
When: 1774, 1776
"The lines have been drawn--blows must decide" --KGIII
"We have it in our power to begin the world anew" --Thomas Paine
"The Declaration of Independence" to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?"
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson,
wrote the Dec, la-ra-tion.
Of Independence, with the help of Congress,
From Bri-tain, from Bri-tain.
The Declaration, of Independence,
was a doc, a doc listing
listing all the reasons, why we wanted freedom,
From the King, from the King.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
In Seventeen, Seventy-Four
Was the place, where it all began.
In two years, we were American.
"We have it in our power to begin the world anew" --Thomas Paine
"The Declaration of Independence" to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?"
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson,
wrote the Dec, la-ra-tion.
Of Independence, with the help of Congress,
From Bri-tain, from Bri-tain.
The Declaration, of Independence,
was a doc, a doc listing
listing all the reasons, why we wanted freedom,
From the King, from the King.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
In Seventeen, Seventy-Four
Was the place, where it all began.
In two years, we were American.